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Nearly half, according to Doctors Without Borders, are women and children.
The situation in Syria is fluid, brutal, and complex. Plus: Ethiopia’s prime minister resigns, and in Germany, a new collective bargaining agreement gives 900,000 metal workers the right to 28-hour work weeks.
Leader Kim Jong-un’s sister personally delivered an invitation to South Korean president Moon Jae-in to attend talks in Pyongyang. Plus: an Israeli air attack on Syrian and Iranian military positions inside Syria may mark a new phase in the conflict.
Evidence mounts for Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. Plus: in the face of food and supply shortages, Venezuela’s unrest grows, and Zimbabwe’s new president reverses Mugabe’s policy on land-leasing to white farmers.
With new tariffs on solar panels and washing machines, and demands to renegotiate longstanding trade deals, President Trump is inching toward a trade war. Plus: US military looks the other way on child sexual abuse in Afghanistan.
Turkey’s incursion into northern Syria could strain its relationship with the US. Plus: in 90 days, Cape Town will be the world’s first major city to run out of water, and the European Union tries to eliminate plastics.
The backlash against Trump's decision to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem intensifies, and the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya in Myanmar continues. Plus: Canada's got a cannabis boom, and China builds refugee settlement ahead of a potential Korean conflict.
Plus: Trump designates North Korea a state sponsor of terror, Saudi Arabia eases its blockade of Yemen, and "the butcher of Bosnia" gets life in prison.
